Fancy fold card

I don't buy a lot of patterned paper/ card for my club as I don't find it cost effective. Recently I found some nice vintage-style pads in The Range and they were so cheap (£1.49 and £1.99) I couldn't not buy them.

I'd watched a video the other day of a card with a similar fold to this one but the measurements were all in imperial and I find it difficult sometimes marking 3/16ths of an inch or whatever.

The card from this pad is perfectly sized to just fold in half and then half again, no faffing. I did then decide to trim some off the height but no silly bits of an inch.

The stamps are a mix of Inkandinkado and Kaisercraft.
The tag punch is SU

Friend

I created the background with spritzing inks on watercolour card.
Sentiment and bubble-wrap stamps are by Kaisercraft.
Text stamp is by Tim Holtz

Friend

I was in a huge rush to get this finished as a sample for card club (hence the mistakes!)

I've used Sue Wilson stitched lattice dies and the sentiment stamp is by Kaisercraft.
The flower stamps and dies are by Heartfelt Creations - the die didn't quite cut all the petals properly and I snipped it very roughly with my scissors that's why it looks so odd.

Advent Calendar

I bought this Kaisercraft advent calendar kit months ago.
I think it was September before I took it out of the packet, then took ages painting it all. The instructions I read said it would need two coats but I gave it three and still wasn't happy with the finish (but was extremely bored of painting by then)

Assembly was straight-forward enough but I was concerned as to whether the MDF would have swollen with the paint and then not fit properly.
After all this I read a blog post where someone suggested assembling it all first and then simply spray painting the whole lot....yeah, wish I'd read that before I started!

The calendar had been sitting about for a few weeks because, although I'd painted it dark brown, I had no idea how to decorate it.
I was hoping that the shops would start getting their Christmas decorations in and that it would inspire me.

Then, last week I realised it was December 1st (today) and that I needed to crack on else there would be no point at all in having an advent calendar.

I am a fan of the Tilda range of papers so eventually decided to use a combination in duck-egg/ brown.

I'm ashamed to say the calendar is still not complete but I have put some chocolates in anyway and it is nearly done ...

I need to number all the boxes (but don't like the huge numbers that come with the kit) and also I want to do something with the big area in the middle.

Maybe by next Christmas I'll have it done :)

December

'December' panel is Kaisercraft
Sentiment, Craftwork Cards
Die, Memory Box

The green cardstock looked a little bland so I stamped (medallion stamp by Stampin' Up!) using Versamark and clear embossing powder.

Merry Christmas

Paper and small panel are Kaisercraft
Sentiment stamp was a magazine freebie
Brad is from an old Papermania kit
I roughly edged the card with Versamark and gold embossing powder.

Peace

Topper is Kaisercraft
Paper from stash, it has a very slight pattern but looked a bit plain so I went over it with a Waltzingmouse stamp and heat-embossed in gold.

Birthday

Paper - Craftwork Cards and Kaisercraft
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Chicken Wire Die - MFT Die-namics
Die (behind sentiment) - Quickutz

Paradise

Paper is Kaisercraft
Vellum quote is Anna Griffin
Corner punch EKSuccess
Butterfly punch Martha Stewart

I wanted to matt the vellum quote with some gold card as it looked lost and needed some definition but when I tried this it didn't quite look right. Matting meant that too much of the patterned paper was then covered up.
After leaving it overnight inspiration struck and I used a very old Krylon gold marker to edge the vellum, I think I've had it eight years or so and haven't used it for ages but it was still fluid.

Thanks

 Sorry about the shadows, really struggling here with the sun!

Panel is by Kaisercraft, stamped sentiment is Woodware.

Happy Birthday

How hard is it to take photos at the moment? all that crazy sunshine, we're just not used to it!

Panel is by Kaisercraft, sentiment is a Sizzix die

Notepad

This is a 30p notepad from Tesco that I've recovered.
Papers are by Tilda.
I've used a stamp by Kaisercraft on the top left, embossed with Versamark and clear embossing powder.
Alpha is Sizzix Script.

A Friend

Papers are by Kaisercraft.

Button, lace and ribbon from stash. 

Glorious

Sentiment is a Woodware stamp
Papers are Kaisercraft
Cuttlebug embossing folder

Honour Christmas

Front panel is from 'Just Believe' by KaiserCraft.
 (Surely it should be spelt 'honour' though, the English way, seeing as Charles Dickens was English?)

Other papers and doily are by Dovecraft

Peace, Love, Joy

Bit of an extended absence due to the flu!
Main panel is by Kaisercraft
Metal snowflake is Making Memories
Pearl button by the Hobby House

Friends

Papers are Kaisercraft "Magnolia Grove"
Swirl die is by Sizzix, it's not quite as shown here as I cut it in half and re-positioned the pieces to suit.